A HARVEST HOME IN CLUTHA. (In this district Prohibition reigns )

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8171, 1 May 1895, Page 1

A HARVEST HOME IN CLUTHA. (In this district Prohibition reigns )

They mustered all, for Ha 1 vest Homo In traps and drays with frames, The hordes gaily mounted, With ta'scls bo their haims. Their manes all nicely plaited With Uip2B of every hue, Their tails and forelocks all tied up With red, and white, and blue. Ono dray was filled with children, Dressed up in their beat clothes In diivei'a scat, sat tho old man, In breeches and long hoso. Close behind him, the old damo Sat on an oaten sheaf, Dealing out the sandwiches, Of oat c<\ke and salt beef, " We're no sao fit', sac awfu 1 in', ]3ut just a wee drap in our o'o,' We only meet but nnco a year, And then wo mcd to hae a sproo," Wwj given by the boss himself — Fanner and farmers' bard — Who quietly (hopped his head on'a breast, And soon wua snoring hard. They had pipes and fiddle, song and d.uico, A cisc of Stewarts best, Of home-brewed alo, each drank a pail, Then quietly sank to rest. At early morning nil dispersed, As jolly as could be ; Though they got fu* they didna fecht, At tho annual harvest sproo. John Sounds. Balclutha, April 20.